Scrap Can Be Beautiful*

2024 celebrates 46 years of CMC’s annual Scrap Can Be Beautiful contest and exhibit. Since 1978, CMC has hosted this annual contest, partnering with Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, located in Dallas, Texas, where students in the 3D Design 2, Sculpture and AP3D Design classes create art sculptures out of scrap metal donated to the school from one of our local recycling yards in the Dallas area.

The artwork is judged by a panel of professional sculpture artists and individuals who have worked in the arts field, some of who have judged the contest for over 30 years. Sculptures are judged in ‘Tabletop’ and ‘Floor’ categories and the winning entries are then displayed in the corporate lobby of CMC for one year. 

Artist Jessica Bell, the sculpting and welding instructor at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, oversees the students as they create their works of art, from concept of design to sculpting and welding.